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У

SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

SECRETARY

Charles Louis Funt

OF THE

Massachusetts Board of Agriculture,

WITH AN APPENDIX

CONTAINING

REPORTS OF DELEGATES APPOINTED TO VISIT

THE COUNTY EXHIBITIONS,

AND ALSO

RETURNS OF THE FINANCES OF THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES

FOR

1868.

BOSTON:

WRIGHT & POTTER, STATE PRINTERS,

79 MILK STREet, (Corner of Federal)

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

1869.

MEMBERS EX

OFFICIIS.

HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM CLAFLIN.

HIS HONOR JOSEPH TUCKER.

HON. OLIVER WARNER, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
WILLIAM S. CLARK, Pres. Mass. Agricultural College.

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Massachusetts,.

Essex,
Middlesex,

Middlesex North,
Middlesex South,
Worcester,
Worcester West,

Worcester North,

CHOSEN BY THE COUNTY SOCIETIES.

Worcester North-West,

Worcester South,

Worcester South-East,

. JOHN JOHNSON, JR., of Framingham,

. THOMAS W. WARD, of Shrewsbury,

. JOHN T. ELLSWORTH, of Barre,

. LEWIS H. BRADFORD, of Fitchburg,
CHARLES C. BASSETT, of Athol,
.NEWTON S. HUBBARD, of Brimfield,
WILLIAM KNOWLTON, of Upton,

Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, H. S. PORTER, of Hatfield,

Hampshire,

Highland,

. JOHN A. MORTON, of Hadley,

. 1872

. 1871

. 1871

. 1870

. 1870

. 1871

Hampden,

Hampden East,

Union,

Franklin,

Berkshire,

Hoosac Valley,.
Housatonic,

Norfolk,

Hingham,
Bristol,

Bristol Central,

Plymouth,

Marshfield,

Barnstable,

Nantucket,

Martha's Vineyard,

. JAMES S. BLAIR, of Brimfield,

. E. W. BOISE, of Blandford,

IMLA K. BROWN, of Bernardston,

. ALEXANDER HYDE, of Lee,

. JOHN L. COLE, of Williamstown,.
T. D. THATCHER, of Lee,

. ELIPHALET STONE, of Dedham,.

. ALBERT FEARING, of Hingham,.
AVERY P. SLADE, of Somerset,

. NATHAN DURFEE, of Fall River,
. CHARLES G. DAVIS, of Plymouth,

. GEORGE M. BAKER, of Marshfield,
. GEORGE A. KING, of Barnstable,
. JAMES THOMPSON, of Nantucket,
. JOHN PIERCE, of Edgartown,

CHARLES L. FLINT, Secretary.

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. 1871

. 1871

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